Codex Atlanticus16 pages
- Weighing materials, poisoning trees, and a water clock
- Faint decorative sketches; site of a lost Sforza heraldic drawing
- Element weights and a nature-printed leaf
- Fables of the trees, with aphorisms on time and the soul
- Quadrature of Lunules and the Flight of Birds
- Squaring the sphere's surface and branch ramifications
- Division of Quantities into Equal Parts
- Flowering Plant, and How Spectacles Restore Aged Sight
- Altimetry, accounts, and studies of a leaf and flower
- A fruiting plant, the physics of impact, and the sphere of water
- The growth of the earth, and prose on the sea monster
- Mechanical sketches and a list of light plant materials
- Note on the pope's chamberlain; geometric solids (780r)
- Sheet of Mechanical Studies with a Faint Flower (818 verso)
- Laws of branching in plants, with shadow and survey notes
- Gears and worm-screws, with beans painted at their sprouting
Codex Arundel11 pages
- How trees and buildings look under an overcast sky
- The blue of distant landscapes and the colours of leaves
- Falling-body experiments and a bastion of living willows
- A water pump, a locked handle, and three maxims
- Water as the vital humour of the earth's body
- The circulation of water through the earth's veins
- Water, Blood and Sap: the Earth's Great Circulation
- Fortified Tower, Firing Bombard, and a Leafy Tendril
- Trees, foliage and the blue of distant landscapes
- Prophecies: Grain, Grafts and Threatening Censers
- River erosion and petrification on the Bisarno; a plant study
Codex Forster II4 pages
Codex Forster III2 pages
Codex Urbinas (Treatise on Painting)62 pages
- Dark Woods, Edge Contrast, and Drawing on Glass
- Why Painters Repeat Themselves; Painting the Seasons
- Painting Trees, Wind, and the Onset of Rain
- Shadows of Cloth, Foliage and Meadows; a Painting Precept
- Shadows and Lights in Nature: Foliage, Sheer Cloth and Hair
- Why mountains look bluer in summer than in winter
- How mountains grow; painting the plants of mountainous country
- Painting mountain summits and the trees down to their roots
- On Trees and Greenery: The Branching of Plants
- Rules of Tree Branching: Angles, Thickness, Leaf-Scars
- How leaves and branches attach and fork on a tree
- Light and Shadow on Foliage; Proportion of Yearly Growth
- Conservation of Branch-Thickness; Opposite vs. Alternate Boughs
- Why Forks Bulge Outward: A Three-Circle Proof
- Reading a Tree's Age from Bark and Growth-Rings
- Growth-Rings as a Record of Years, Seasons and Orientation
- Leaf Arrangement and the Angles of Branches
- Branchings Foreshortened; Leaves Turned to the Dew
- Leaves as the Branch's Nourishment; Four Modes of Growth
- Why Timber Grains Bend; Trees in Valleys and on Hills
- Trees at a Distance: From Form to Light, Dark, and Color
- Nourishment of Cut Branches; Proportion of Branches
- How Trees Grow and Toward Which Side They Grow Most
- Why a Branch Grows Thickest Below, and the Making of Bark
- The Three Modes of Tree Branching
- Why Trees Bend, and the Four Accidents of Foliage
- The Transparency of Leaves and the Off-Centre Pith of a Bough
- How Site Shapes a Tree, and How to Choose Straight Timber
- Drying Timber and the Five Distances of Trees
- How Lit Leaves Stand Out Against Shadowed Foliage
- Why Trees Look Lighter Near and Darker Far
- Directions of Tree Shadows Under the Rising Sun
- The Form of Trunks and the Light on Leaves
- Two Trees in Sunlight and Light on Rounded Foliage
- Painting Trees: Universal Light and the Shadows of Foliage
- Highlights of Leaves: Why Yellow Foliage Gleams Green
- The Green of Leaves and the Darkness of Trees Against the Sky
- Trees Seen From Above: Distance, Shadow and a Diagram of Crowns
- The blue of distant trees and the sun on the forest
- Plants Between Eye and Light, and the Four Accidents of Foliage
- Why Distant Bodies Look Round, and the Shadows of Plants
- How to Light the Masses of Leafy Boughs
- Why Not to Paint Leaves Transparent to the Sun
- Dark Leaves Before Transparent Ones, and the Colour of Foliage
- Trees with Straight Branches, and Trees at Sunrise
- Eastern, Southern and Northern Trees at Sunrise
- Meadows, Grasses and the Shadows of Landscape
- Shadows of Leafy Branches and the Darkest Part of a Bough
- Landscapes Toward the Sun and Backlit Trees
- Description of the Elm; Varying the Greens of Foliage
- Leaves Layered Like Ivy; the Leaves of the Walnut
- Landscape Appearances and the Transparency of Trees
- Overlapping Trees, and Wind Seen in Leaves and Meadows
- How the Wind Bends and Shapes Trees; Waves Over Forests
- Bark, Branching, and Massing Foliage in Painting
- Plants Shaped by Storm; Light, Shade and Luster in Leaves
- Luster on Leaves and Matching Their Colors Exactly
- Contents of the sixth part: trees and greenery
- Table of trees: bark, branching and trees seen at a distance
- Table of trees: light, shade and colour of foliage
- Index: shadows of plants, trees, meadows, and landscapes
- Table of trees: leaves, herbs and painting plant colour
Codex on the Flight of Birds6 pages
Paris Manuscript B6 pages
- Painted Fruits and Vegetables with Ornamental Letters and Plans
- Dividing the circle, a geared mechanism, a lamp and a violet
- Constructing a pentagon and an equilateral triangle
- Flower study, a pentagon construction and soldering lead roofs
- Studies for a central-plan domed church, with tree and timber notes
- Screw-cutting machine, bells and a jetting fountain vase
Paris Manuscript E3 pages
Paris Manuscript F3 pages
Paris Manuscript G51 pages
- Tree-trunk swellings, a parallelepiped, and impact of motion
- Painting a leaf in two colours, front and reverse
- How leaf faces take the sky's colour and a yellow-green reverse
- Of Lights: Four Kinds of Illumination and Leaf Shadows
- Luster and Transparency of Backlit Foliage
- Never Paint Sunlit Transparent Leaves; Twig Arrangement
- A Screw-Clamp Device; Low Boughs Bending to Earth
- Transparency of Backlit Trees Seen One Behind Another
- Practice without science is a ship without rudder or compass
- How light passes through leaves: transparency and luster
- The pruned willow: shadow and relief of its branches
- Meadow grasses and plants seen against the light
- The wind moves like a river; the three accidents of a leaf
- Concave and Backlit Leaves in Light and Shadow
- Shadows, Reflections, and Painting Trees in Overcast Light
- How a Tree's Shadows Lighten Away from the Ground
- The Painter's Lights; Straight Growth and Fine Branching
- The ramification of trees; a plumb-line leveling instrument
- Painting light and shade on foliage, mountains and battle scenes
- The Birth of Leaves on Their Branches
- On Proportion: Doubling Circles and Squares
- Southern Plants and Meadows in the Morning Light
- The Appearance of Landscapes: The Horizon Circle
- Eastern Trees and the Effect of Viewpoint
- The Shadows of Trees in Distant Woods
- Eastern Trees and the Smoke of Cities
- Backgrounds and the Outlines of Painted Bodies
- The Four Accidental Colours of Tree Foliage
- How Tree Branches Grow, Bend and Rise
- The Aptitude and Range of the Painter; Twig Growth
- How the Gaps in Foliage Vanish with Distance
- On Trees: How Foliage Rounds Off at a Distance
- Description of the Elm: Its Branching and Leaf Spacing
- Painting Foliage, and Why Leaves Face the Sky
- The Walnut: Leaf Distribution and the Weight of Sap
- The Highlights of Leaves: Blue Sky, Yellow Leaves, Green Luster
- The Elder: Paired Leaves That Bend to Catch the Dew
- Branching of plants: elm, fern-like and willow forms
- Plant growth: leaves to the sky and the gourd experiment
- Birth of branches and the straightness of the grain in wood
- The leaf as mother; situating figures in light
- Why lower tree-branches grow longer than upper ones
- Representing things in motion; the growth-rings of trees
- Why the lower branches of a tree bend downward
- The elm: why upper branches lengthen and lower ones die
- Why plant stems curve and thicken toward the south
- On painting: bodies should not be outlined
- Ripening seed in sunlight, and testing the fineness of waters
- Branching of the Cherry Tree; Falling Weights in Air and Water
- The Struck Walnut Branch: An Emblem of Envy
- Three Moral Emblems: Cloth, Grafted Thorn, Falling Bricks